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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> You can talk pretty much anything down to O(1) that way. Take 
> an algorithm that is O(n) in the number of tasks, since you 
> know you have a pid-space constraint of 30bits you can never 
> have more than 2^30 (aka 1Gi) tasks, hence your algorithm is 
> O(2^30) aka O(1).

We can go even further than that, IIRC all physical states of 
this universe fit into a roughly 2^1000 finite state-space, so 
every computing problem in this universe is O(2^1000), i.e. 
every computing problem we can ever work on is O(1).

Really, I think Andrea is missing the big picture here.

Thanks,

	Ingo